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30 — Botany and Ormiston Times, Thursday, June 11, 2015
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Generally,
if somebody
is driving a
car they don’t
own across
auckland,
there’s a good
chance it’ll have
a broken side window and the ignition’s been
hotwired. In london, some motors being
driven around have also been ‘borrowed’, but
that doesn’t mean they’ve been nicked, officer.
It’s Ford’s GoDrive car sharing service, which
is currently undergoing final beta testing. Ford
has invited 2000 people to try the scheme and
provide feedback.
Car sharing schemes aren’t new, but Ford’s is
the first to offer one-way trips and guaranteed
parking. Users book one of 50 zero-emission
Focus electric or a fuel-efficient Fiesta 1.0-litre
ecoBoost. They have 15 minutes to pick up
their car, which is located at a GoDrive hub;
there are 20 located around the city.
a one-charge pay-as-you-go fee of 17p (nZ
37c) per minute applies, regardless of time of
day and distance travelled. Fuel, insurance and
london’s congestion charges are included.
The vehicle must be returned to any GoDrive
depot. It can be kept indefinitely, but the per
minute fee applies whether or not the car’s
being driven.
The scheme’s an ideal way to link trips on
public transport or for city dwellers who don’t
own a vehicle, and parking is guaranteed.
So how does it work? Here’s the scary part
(for an oldie like me): the vehicle is booked
using an iPhone app, and the same app
unlocks the vehicle. Being push-button start,
an ignition key is redundant.
although Ford describes GoDrive as an
‘experiment’, the infrastructure is in place and
the only real question is ‘how big will it get?’
actually, I have another question. What
happens if your iPhone gets stolen? Check out
www.go-drive.com for more details.
TIME
With
Alistair
Davidson
Torque
columnist
Sharing’s
caring
Football
Penalty save and late
goal earn victory
AGOal in the 85th minute
secured a 1-0 victory for
Beachlands Maraetai
aFC against Warkworth in their
conference league meeting at Te
Puru on Saturday.
Johnny rist claimed the late
winner that bagged the three
points to maintain BMaFC’s second
place position on the table.
after two weeks off, it took
the home side time to find their
rhythm.
In the first 25 minutes, BMaFC
weren’t short on chances to take
the lead, but failure to finish and
the efforts of the Warkworth
keeper kept it a stalemate.
Warkworth picked up their game
and for the second third piled
on the pressure, with the BMaFC
defence having to work hard to
clean up dangerous balls, and
keeper Oswaldo rodriguez called
into action to pull-off a couple of
fine saves.
There was high drama in the
final minute of the first-half after
Warkworth were awarded a
penalty when their striker went
down following a clash with James
Gibbs.
But rodriguez was the hero
of the hour after he dived the
right way to keep the score 0-0 at
halftime.
BMaFC started the second
half strong, creating most of the
chances with Warkworth not
showing much of a threat, their
efforts easily taken care of by
rodriguez.
However, despite being the
stronger outfit, it looked like the
game would end with a frustrating
deadlock.
Then with five minutes
remaining, a great run by Troy
Cleave resulted in a magnificent
cross in that put rist one-on-one
with the keeper, and reminiscent
of his goal against Glen eden, the
keeper fumbled after being put
under pressure by the front man.
The clearance hit off the head of
rist who managed to aim it into
the net. a bumbling finish, but
enough to claim the three points.
Coach Paul Stephens says
despite some lack lustre moments,
he is happy with the overall
performance and result.
“We hadn’t trained for two
weeks because of the weather, so
our guys were a bit rusty and it
showed in the first half.
“In the second half, we started
to create more of the chances
and should have tucked away a
couple more, but some average
finishing and great saves from the
[Warkworth] keeper didn’t let that
happen.
“But we gutsed it out, stuck with
it to the end, and got the result.”
Stephens is happy with BMaFC’s
position on the league table, but
admits there’s a long way to go.
“We’re trying to build something
here, and we’re getting there. We
are one point off of what we got
for all of last year. But, it’s 11 games
gone, with 11 still to go.”
Player of the day was jointly
awarded to stalwart centre back
brothers, Troy and Brody Cleave.
BMaFC’s reserves won by
default after Warkworth reserves
were unable to field a team; Senior
Women’s side drew 3-3 with
Papakura City.
BMaFC kick-off their Counties
Manukau Knockout Cup campaign
away against Pukekohe aFC M9
Cavaliers, this Saturday.
The next home game is against
Unimount Bohemian Celtic on
July 4.
Man of the match Brody Cleave wins the mid-air battle for BMAFC.
Photosupplied/claudetherond.com